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  • important composers of keyboad instrumental music in the late Renaissance and ... virtuosic and experimental works. His vocal music, which includes a number ...
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  • His many sacred madrigals, secular vocal compositions, and instrumental ... of music, including sacred and secular vocal music, music for mixed groups ...
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  • development of the opera and the dramatic vocal stylism of his arias and ... His earliest works were incidental music for plays and madrigals. ...
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  • instrumental music. All of his secular vocal music is relatively early; late ... VN_Gabrieli_Giovanni.html Early Vocal Music Map] * [http://www.acc ...
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  • all genres of English sacred and secular vocal music, John Blow's main ... distinguished himself by his proficiency in music, especially with his keyboard ...
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  • May 15, 1609) was an Italian composer of vocal music who lived during the late ... Croce created secular and sacred vocal musical compositions that are ...
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  • Farinelli. Nicola Popora's fame as a vocal instructor and composer of ... Porpora was born in Naples. He graduated from the music conservatory ...
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  • and organist of the late Renaissance music and early Baroque music eras ... Hassler most likely studied music as a boy with his father, who was ...
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  • and repeatedly changes in pitch from the vocal or chest register (or "chest ... In Alpine folk music, it was probably developed in the Swiss Alps ...
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  • New Age Music, known as a combination of mostly instrumental pieces ... Music of the Spheres is cited in old scriptures, and the Greek philosopher ...
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  • and 1970s and blends elements of Yoruba music, jazz and funk rhythms with ... 1960s. Kuti's experience with Highlife music in the Koola Lobitos Band ...
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  • the flute which has benefitted the world of music richly. ... Quantz also wrote trio sonatas and vocal music resulting from his interests ...
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  • Johannes Tinctoris (c.1435 – 1511) was a Flemish composer and music ... Tinctoris published many volumes of writings on music. While they ...
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  • In music, a serenade (or sometimes serenata) is a musical composition ... In music history serenades have been composed for ensembles of many ...
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  • master composer of European classical music as well as a prolific nationalistic ... integrating existing folk melodies into his music, but was far more elemental ...
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  • found not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. ... The madrigal was a secular vocal music which often used word-painting ...
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  • as well as oratorios, songs, and incidental music. He was especially renowned ... with humor and dramatic dialogue. His vocal background made him very ...
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  • or, more accurately, the Roman School of music. An ordained priest of the ... and a tremendous contribution to dramatic music; the further development ...
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  • #039; most successful rock and country music artists of the twentieth ... they won four consecutive CMA awards for vocal duo. In 1982, Twitty moved ...
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  • were often influenced by Armenian folk music. By synthesizing folk music ... In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but ...
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  • Sheet music, or score, is a hand-written or printed form of musical ... means something other than it should. In vocal music text must be aligned with ...
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  • form, became an important secular vocal music in England due to his ... found not only in madrigals but in other vocal music of the Renaissance. Among ...
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  • accompaniment used in almost all genres of music in the Baroque period. The ... with-accompaniment texture in secular vocal music culminated in the genre ...
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  • Northeastern High School, she received vocal coaching from Abraham Silver ... a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. ...
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  • She received her first professional vocal training at the age of five ... and released it in 1955. James named her vocal group The Peaches. ...
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  • development of the Romantic opera in German music and influenced the early ... Joseph Vogler), founder of three important music schools (in Mannheim, Stockholm ...
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  • Bluegrass music is a form of American country music with roots in ... identified as a distinct genre of country music in the 1950s. Unlike country ...
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  • Folk Rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and ... movement of the 1930s, notably in the folk music of Pete Seeger (1919-2014 ...
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  • twentieth-century American composer and music administrator. In addition ... achieved prominence in the international music scene. Although he was influenced ...
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  • Danny Kortchmar. The two began playing folk music together. ... winning a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for his cover ...
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  • Renaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance ... or a performance practice in a cappella vocal music of the latter, mainly ...
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  • collecting, studying and documenting folk music of indigenous cultures. This ... He also studied at the Academy of Music where he received his Diploma ...
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  • | Img_capt = Merle Haggard, Country Music Association& ... - April 6, 2016) was an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler ...
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  • one hits on the Billboard magazine country music charts. Both as a solo artist ... but more streamlined than the honky-tonk music of the late 1940s and early ...
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  • Bellini teased out the proficiencies for vocal production and created a ... Fioravanti at 18 months, began studying music theory at two, the piano ...
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  • stage to the delight of the audience. The music that he created made the ... composers in the world, and the best of his music contains a vitality and charm ...
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  • Most of Taverner's music is vocal, and includes masses, Magnificats ... * Benham, Hugh. John Taverner: his life and music. Aldershot, Hants ...
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  • and drummer. Mayfield entered the hit music scene as the lead singer ... funk and of politically conscious African-American music. ...
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  • contributed to his great affinity for vocal composition. His song cycles ... Britten once wrote: “It is cruel, you know, that music should be ...
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  • London); other well-known works are Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks ... and organ, and at nine he began to compose music. However, his father, an ...
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  • Liturgical music is a form of music originating as a part of religious ... the spirit of divinity as well as vocal music, instrumental music was ...
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  • periods. As a renowned creator of sacred music, Michael Haydn concentrated ... a similar work regarding the sacred vocal music. Some of Haydn's ...
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  • wop/R&B band, who helped create soul music with gospel-style vocals ... quot; (2000) were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. In 2004 ...
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  • of his working life in France. Although his music is not well known today, ... operas and his compositions of sacred music. His influence extended into ...
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  • African American music is an umbrella term given to a range of music ... vernacular traditions. African American music and all aspects of African ...
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  • genre, Wills merged traditional country music with sophisticated jazz-influenced ... audiences with his stage banter and vocal encouragement of his fellow ...
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  • was an Italian composer of Renaissance music. He was the most famous sixteenth ... Italian composer; most composers of sacred music in Italy at that time were ...
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  • The Impressions are an American music group from Chicago that formed ... both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. ...
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  • The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) was a project ... archive which focuses on choral and vocal music in the public domain. ...
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  • the soul of punk rock created a form of music which more clearly portrayed ... remarried and encouraged an interest in music in both him and his brother ...
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  • The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet that rose to the top of ... dinner in New York. They joined into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999 ...
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  • He was a student at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College, Cambridge ... He was a musical patriot who believed strongly in the importance of ...
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  • However, top session musicians are well known within the music industry ... sessions and live performances; recording music for advertising, film, television ...
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  • one of the greatest vocalists in jazz music. Though without technical ... in what many consider some of jazz music's greatest recordings ...
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  • became his trademark. Rhythmically, his music was primitive and relatively ... More than any other well known urban bluesman, Hooker's music ...
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  • The Coasters are a rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll vocal group ... the songwriting team and the entertaining vocal group. The talented saxophone ...
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  • smash hit, “Ring of Fire.” Outside of music, she had several memorable ... Virginia. She was born into country music and performed with the Carter ...
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  • Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group ... The word "chamber" signifies that the music can be performed ...
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  • performance, or for rehearsing a cappella music. While Eastern Orthodox churches ... music. Ethnomusicology often focuses on vocal music because of the unique ...
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  • breaking innovations in African American music that would influence the ... musicians. Waters influence on popular music became unmistakable following ...
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  • Patsy Cline (Sept. 8, 1932—March 5, 1963) was a country music singer ... Patsy dethroned Kitty Wells as the "Queen of Country Music" ...
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  • composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University ... culminating with his becoming the music director of the five largest ...
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  • songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll music. His recording career spanned ... by fans as a staple in the realm of popular music, and in the music community ...
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  • Dolly Rebecca Parton (January 19, 1946 - ) is an American country ... in 1999, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of fame. In 2005, Parton ...
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  • |Alias = Tammy Wynette, "The First Lady of Country ... |Genre = country music |Years_active = 1966-1998 ...
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  • Travis is considered a pivotal figure in the history of country music ... would eventually switch his focus to gospel music, a change which resulting ...
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  • performance (a combination of pantomime and vocal acrobatics) into Noh theater ... . Sarugaku, a mixture of pantomime and vocal acrobatics, was the predecessor ...
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  • of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s ... junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music when he was 11. For the next ...
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  • ==Vocal Music== The forms of Hindustani classical music were designed ... A form of vocal music, khayal is almost entirely improvised and very ...
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  • and inventiveness. He was able to produce music of original beauty with a ... Spells.” The distinguished, chamber music style of the Goodman trio ...
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  • by introducing gospel forms into secular music, helped lay the foundation ... how to read Braille, as well as to write music and play various musical ...
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  • events of puberty. As a result, the vocal range of prepubescence (shared ... harpsichord playing, and to compose vocal music, either sacred or secular ...
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  • were largely spent writing essays rather than music. of work from this time, including a vocal work left unfinished just ...
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  • was a major fan of American soul music, and created a distinctive ... the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the UK Music Hall of Fame. ...
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  • Samba is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil and is widely ... developed as a distinctive kind of music at the beginning of the twentieth ...
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  • be seen as an apotheosis of instrumental music. As European composers sought ... ballets, interspersed with instrumental and vocal music. ...
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  • in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has ... plus an operetta, several orchestral and vocal works, as well as songs and ...
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  • and violist best known for her chamber music featuring the viola. She ... Her father was interested in music, and Clarke started learning violin ...
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  • Barbershop music is a style of a cappella, or unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in ...
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  • on geometry, arithmetic, astronomy and music which were used throughout ... as ideas alone, underlay one of the most vocal controversies in medieval ...
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  • Young. They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, instrumental excellence ... the three realized that they had a unique vocal chemistry. ...
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  • through which she became well-known for her vocal abilities. She began accepting ... Marian attended William Penn High School until her music vocation ...
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  • won additional fans in the growing folk music market and the band brought ... and Scruggs were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1985. ...
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  • Swing refers to both a special quality of jazz music (and some related ... Swing music, also known as swing jazz, is a form of jazz music that ...
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  • with the direction the band's music was taking and his own diminished ... "How Long" live at the Country Music Association Awards. ...
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  • composer and lutist of the late Renaissance music as well as a nobleman and ... falls into three categories: sacred vocal music, secular vocal music, ...
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  • of two violins, a viola, and a cello—or a music piece written to be performed ... correspond to the four ranges found in vocal choirs—soprano, alto, tenor ...
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  • . It began as dance music in popular music settings years before being ... The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation ...
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  • part in Baroque music, and a cappella vocal music receded in importance. ... music such as marches, to grandly scored vocal music and music for the stage ...
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  • plucked strings and percussion. Chinese vocal music has traditionally been ... Chinese vocal music has traditionally been sung in a thin, non-resonant ...
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  • the group gained popularity for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting ... and listened intently to the harmonies of vocal groups like The Four Freshmen ...
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  • (1955), the latter featuring Walter's vocal performance as well as his ... while Juke was still on the charts. His vocal hits included "My Babe ...
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  • vocalists of the twentieth Century. Her vocal range spanned three octaves ... with formally trained opera singers. Her vocal talent was a gift that came ...
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  • While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he was one ... region. By this time, his reputation as a vocal teacher, scholar, and composer ...
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  • dexterity on the guitar and his engaging vocal personality. He recorded ... Floor Elevators. A film devoted to his music—The Blues Accordin' ...
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  • Vocalist of the Year from both the Country Music Association and the Academy ... playing guitar as a youth without learning to read music. ...
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  • Alban Berg's musical philosophy was to translate poetry into ... *Wilkey, Jay Weldon. Certain Aspects of Form in the Vocal Music of ...
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  • In music, counterpoint is the relationship between two or more voices ... Ages and the Renaissance began to write music with greater linear complexity ...
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  • over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...
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  • distinctive voice. Joplin performed on four music albums recorded between 1966 ... band was an enormous hit, especially the vocal styling of Joplin. The group ...
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  • eleven for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. The state of ... Franklin maintained her position in the music recording industry throughout ...
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  • blues, R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She is represented in the ... emphasized the power and raw emotion of her vocal qualities and became a huge ...
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  • and soul singer known for his passionate vocal delivery. He recorded some ... A pioneer in the development of soul music, Pickett's work between ...
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  • bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ... examples of fingerpicking found in guitar music." In the 1960s, "I ...
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  • The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... variations. The main emphasis is on vocal music; most compositions are ...
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  • was even able to sell some of them to local music groups. ... Caston, who helped him become serious about music as a career. Dixon sang in ...
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  • and amateur musician. Carl first discovered music by experimenting with the ... * Solo vocal music ** 40 Danish songs (1914, 1917), collab. T. Laub ...
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  • and stepfather, encouraged his interest in music and supported his desire ... David Browne, Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley ...
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  • conductors at the Tanglewood Institute of Music remained his passion until ... === Vocal music === * I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kids Songs for ...
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  • that study the way cultures utilize music). A didgeridoo is usually ... Berndt in Arnhem Land. In 1953, the Tribal Music of Australia record, the ...
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  • The bulk of Buxtehude's oeuvre consists of vocal music, which ... important sources for Buxtehude's vocal music. The former includes several ...
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  • as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely ... is to be heard in all his later vocal music, the naturalistic mode ...
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  • Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...
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  • main emphasis in Carnatic music is on vocal music; most compositions are ... In Carnatic music, the main emphasis is on vocal music; most compositions ...
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  • 27, 1474) was a Franco-Flemish composer and music theorist of the late Medieval ... evidently gave him a thorough training in music. He studied with Rogier de ...
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  • respected and influential American country music singers and guitarists. Although ... out of high school to pursue a career in music. During his time as a DJ ...
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  • were the first to surround black R & B music with elaborate production ... won her a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was later ...
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  • wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. His best ... ===Vocal music=== * Se il vuol la molinara (1801) * Dolce aurette che ...
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  • chamber music and, most importantly, his vocal music, much of which features ... the time. Pachelbel was also a prolific vocal music composer: around a hundred ...
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  • composer. He is noted for his experimental music work (in particular his 1968 ... He later attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School or Internationale ...
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  • or hazzan is a musician trained in the vocal arts who helps lead the synagogue ... in 70 C.E., a consensus developed that all music and singing would be banned ...
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  • the most beloved personalities in American music and one of jazz music’s ... and organ as a child, taught largely by the music director of his Baptist church ...
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  • to opera, but lighter in terms of both music and subject matter. Because ... plots than with the caliber of the music. Topical satire is a feature ...
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  • Rhythm Boys and they joined the Whiteman vocal team, working and recording ... pushed to the background with the vocal emphasis on Bing. Shortly ...
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  • Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed ... artists in the history of American popular music. ==Early life== ...
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  • contributions to Protestant Church music in the second half of the ... this time he was trained by his father in music on the keyboard and organ ...
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  • - October 4, 2022) was an American country music performer. One of the leading ... and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988. ...
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  • piano concerto in the history of Western music has its antecedent in the ... seventeenth century in Italy to describe vocal music with instrumental accompaniment; ...
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  • subjects he showed avid interest in were music and sports. Bix began going ... Jazz,” mostly played sophisticated dance music. Along with “Tram,” guitarist ...
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  • |Genre = Pop Music, Country Music |Occupation = ... Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame. ...
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  • particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer ... however, the vast majority of Cui's vocal music is based on Russian texts ...
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  • is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. Opera emerged ... basics and that all the various elements—music (both instrumental and vocal ...
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  • with Owen Bradley, the smoother country music style known as the Nashville ... an inter-cultural bridge that brought his music to a wide audience and increased ...
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  • The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...
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  • similar to a violin), in addition to vocal music. The well known Senegalese Fula popular musician Baaba Maal sings in Pulaar on his recordings. ...
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  • for instruments. In addition, some vocal music was easily playable with ... who wrote instrumental music, or whose vocal music plays well on recorders, were: ...
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  • for his knowledge of the orchestral music of German operas, the libretto ... aspects of his art form. On the topic of music and its influence of the ...
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  • important opera composers of the Classical music era, particularly remembered ... up to follow in his footsteps. At that time music was all the rage. Unfortunately ...
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  • has been called "the queen of Tejano music".Rick Mitchell, [http://web ... and her mastery of traditional Mexican vocal techniques, together with ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • a crucial figure in the history of music. His work bridged the "old ... As a child, he served as a chorister and studied music under Marc ...
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  • albeit notorious figures in American folk music. After spending time in and ... The topics of Lead Belly's music were equally wide ranging, including ...
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  • Stones, and Eric Clapton, with his unique vocal style, haunting lyrics, and ... Johnson also performed other types of music. His repertoire included ...
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  • of four voices, not unlike that of a vocal chorus: high voice, mid-high ... popularity in the early days of recorded music, as their sound could more ...
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  • Metastasio's lyrics were set to music by virtually every major ... #039;s legacy may lie more in the realm of music than in literature. Although ...
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  • As a master of Renaissance music, des Prez became known internationally ... As with many composers of his era, Josquin's sacred music was ...
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  • The Band was an influential rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 ... albums were its first two: the 1968 debut Music from Big Pink and 1969's ...
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  • and one of the most popular contemporary vocal performers in the world of ... otherwise be bridged. From the realm of art music into more popular genres ...
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  • of the Civil Rights Movement, and he was a vocal critic of both black and ... Institute on a scholarship to study music. He had hopes of writing ...
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  • The term medieval music encompasses European music written during ... was inimical to religion. Still, vocal music became an important aspect ...
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  • Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the music of Tahiti was dominated ... the use of the sustained sixth chord in vocal music; typically the sixth chord ...
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  • it is believed that he taught poetry and music, and composed paeans for ... his own saying that "poetry is vocal painting, as painting is ...
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  • Springsteen had been inspired to take up music at the age of seven ... inspire the musical genre known as lo-fi music, becoming a cult favorite ...
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  • Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He received music lessons from ... He learned not only jazz and gospel music, but European classical music ...
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  • Italian sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ... to include: the shift of focus from vocal music to instrumental music; ...
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  • He also composed oratorios, chamber music, symphonies and instrumental ... organist) Elgar was exposed to liturgical music from his earliest years and ...
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  • in the 1960s and 1970s. Gaye's soul music performances were unique ... songwriter-producers in African American music, such as Stevie Wonder, Luther ...
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  • For Baroque era composers, music was not primarily an exercise in ... significant support for professional music-making in the German-speaking ...
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  • 15, 2008. was an English composer and was a music teacher for over 20 years ... Having studied at the Royal College of Music in London, ...
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  • The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical ... The invisible, vibratory world of instrumental music can be said to ...
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  • and arts programs, including theater, early music concerts (performed by the ... === Music === Nicknamed "the singing college," Amherst has ...
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  • were admired for their abilities in music, calligraphy, painting and ... plucked strings and percussion. Chinese vocal music has traditionally been ...
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  • Earl Hines is one of jazz music’s most legendary pianists and one ... produced a considerable amount of wonderful music. The leader’s acrobatic ...
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  • represents a native art form. Gamelan music is built up in layers, with ... only obvious Indian influence in gamelan music is in the Javanese style ...
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  • most prominent composers of the Classical music era, called the "Father ... shorter and subsidiary to more important vocal music, and slowly expanded their ...
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  • for their psychedelic or space rock music, and, as they evolved, for ... popular bands in the London underground music scene in the late 1960s as ...
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  • Imene tuki and imene metua are forms of unaccompanied vocal music ... misidentified as an example of Tahitian music. The art of drumming has ...
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  • The appellation "Classical music" is a broad, somewhat imprecise ... elicit the spirit of divinity as well as vocal music, therefore instrumental ...
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  • I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ... a fundamental relationship with all other music in the world…. A composer ...
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  • modern, deconstructionist era to deride the music of the late Romantic period ... overriding narrative in much of Mahler’s music is the poetic idea that the ...
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  • In general, the term “Romanticism” applied to music has come to ... the supremacy of instrumental music over vocal music in expressiveness, a concept ...
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  • Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus' often ... His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus ...
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  • Zubir took a year to finish composing the music and lyrics for the ... (MICA) state that either instrumental or vocal versions of the national ...
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  • A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...
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  • Presley also recorded ballads, country music, and gospel. In a musical ... time, his blending of R&B and country music styles did much to break ...
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  • "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. Originally called ... most prestigious, significant awards in the music industry worldwide. ...
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  • the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor ... of vocal and instrumental writing. In vocal music these four distinct parts ...
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  • grunge the most popular form of hard rock music at the time. However, many ... Grunge music is generally characterized by "dirty" guitar ...
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  • up worn by its performers. A rich blend of music, dance, mime, and spectacular ... enormous range of skills in visual and vocal performance. The traditions ...
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  • the style referred to as Impressionist music, a term which he dismissed ... and Javanese--Debussy sought a modern music that would convey emotions ...
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  • one of the most recognized Czech classical music composers, and many critics ... Smetana was a child prodigy who grew up in a family that cultivated ...
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  • figures in twentieth-century popular music. blues into soul and eventually, funk. His music would prove to have a profound ...
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  • Country music, the first half of Billboard's country and western ... The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier ...
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  • musical performances but also an education in music. ==Life== ... Corea developed his piano skills by exploring music on his own. A ...
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  • * Sangeetham (Music): Song/Vocal accompaniment (Geetha), and instrumental ... Music is an essential element of Kathakali. The language of the songs ...
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  • "It Hurts Me Too." James' music was characterized by his ... *Rowe, Mike. Chicago Blues: The City & the Music. Westview Press ...
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  • Although Pearl Bailey had no official music education, she attributed ... but in fact cunningly controlled lapses of vocal concentration causing the ...
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  • revealed a whole new audience for popular music, which had appealed mainly ... record during the ban by using a cappella vocal backing. Sinatra scored several ...
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  • the Christian West to become the official music of the Roman Catholic liturgy ... although in poetic or obscure ways that shed little light on how music ...
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  • this time that Coltrane began playing music and practicing obsessively. ... quot; by this point, and that the music from the 1946 sessions had ...
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  • "degenerate" (entartete) art and music: see degenerate art. ... attempted to explain all modern art, music and literature by pointing ...
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  • suffering two official denunciations of his music in 1936 and 1948 and the ... wrote primarily in the romantic music idiom, drawing heavily on ...
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  • as a pupil-teacher of elocution and music, in Weston House Academy ... by means of electricity, could transmit its music at a distance. In 1871, he ...
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  • merged Hawaiian poetry, chanted vocal performance, dance movements ... women dancers are less revealing and the music is heavily Western-influenced. ...
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  • were used for communication, and their music has become popular worldwide ... Mbube is a form of South African vocal music. The word mbube means ...
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  • incorporating and transforming local folk music forms. As the popularity ... the middle and higher classes. Flamenco music also slipped in and out of ...
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  • during which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued ... Soon, he wrote surrealistic poetry and music.Mel Gussow, [http://www.nytimes ...
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  • these traditions, particularly sculpture, music, and classical dance, were ... 1962, together with the National School of Music and Dance at Ban Anou in ...
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  • Quernest (1842–1893), was interested in music and literature. A precociously ... of Ubu on Jarry's own staccato, nasal vocal delivery, which emphasized ...
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  • and fair director Daniel Burnham were vocal about their displeasure with ... resulted in many being saved. The most vocal voice was Richard Nickel ...
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  • In music, a fugue [fjuːg] ) is a type of counterpoint or contrapuntal ... On the other hand, composers almost never write music in a purely ...
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  • that jazz and blues, so-called race-music, was a viable commercial ... song's lyrics, without Smith's vocal interpretation the emotion ...
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  • change that serves the interest of a small, vocal minority; some encourage ... novels of Albert Camus, and listened to Jazz music. ==Examples of counterculture ...
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  • The Blues, a haunting, stylistic type of vocal and instrumental music, is based on the use of 'blue' notes or the intentional aberration ...
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  • with Lady Gaga, in August 2021 at Radio City Music Hall. ... and Design, where he studied painting and music and would later appreciate ...
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  • His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing ... to more classical orchestral and sacred music, always interweaving his ...
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  • are understood to have been the major non-vocal, melodic instruments of Native ... been an integral part of Indian classical music since 1500 BC. A major deity ...
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  • and celebrated composer of Classical music. His enormous output of more ... clergy in his native Austria. Unlike the music of J.S. Bach and the composers ...
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  • Although musicologists typically group the music of the Trecento (music of ... be the final statement of the polyphonic vocal music of the Renaissance. ...
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  • The western countries offered only vocal criticism following the invasion–the ... * Music for Prague 1968 by Czech-born composer Karel Husa is a programme ...
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  • each movement must be expressed in time to music. The music of Beijing opera ... from those regions. It also absorbed music and arias from other operas ...
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